Capital Group International Core Equity ETF
$36.55−0.57 (−1.55%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.54%
- Fund size
- $2.6B
- 1Y return
- +22.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.63%
- Holdings
- 169
- Volume · 30D
- 0.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $36.64
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGIC Grade
Score 62 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 63Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 68Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 82Category rank
Our read on CGIC
BCapital Group's stock pickers go shopping outside the US, developed and emerging markets alike, chasing growth plus a paycheck. Real active management at 0.54%, which undercuts the typical active international fund.
The fund seeks long-term capital growth together with current income by investing primarily in common stocks and other equity securities of companies outside the United States, including emerging markets and developing countries.
Why people hold it
- Priced under its peer group: 0.54% a year against a 0.60% median for active international equity funds. Active stock selection without the usual active markup.
- A two-part mandate, not just growth. The fund seeks long-term capital growth together with current income from non-US equities, and distributions are paid quarterly.
- Genuinely go-anywhere: developed and emerging markets both in the hunting ground, spread across roughly 170 stocks rather than a concentrated bet.
- Sits in the top quartile of its 58-fund active international equity group on our review, and it trades actively, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.
Worth knowing
- Systematic rivals cost a fraction: AVDE runs 0.23% and DFIC 0.22%. You are paying up for human judgment, so the stock picking has to earn that gap.
- Young fund, launched June 2024. There is not much of a track record yet, which limits how much its risk history can tell you.
- Emerging and developing markets sit inside the mandate alongside developed ones, which brings currency moves and single-country politics into the ride.
CGIC Holdings
- Stocks
- 169
- 24%
- TSM
Sectors
- Financials22.3%
- Technology19.9%
- Industrials13.1%
- Materials8.6%
- Cons. Staples7.5%
- Consumer Discr.7.4%
- Communication7.3%
- Energy4.8%
- Health Care4.4%
- Utilities3.2%
- Real Estate1.5%
Geography
- France11.20%
- United Kingdom10.42%
- Japan10.17%
- Taiwan (Province of China)8.28%
- Korea (the Republic of)7.29%
- Canada5.52%
- Netherlands5.50%
- Germany5.12%
- 36.49%
Developed 71% · Emerging 29%
CGIC Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | CGIC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.4% |
| 1 month | −0.1% |
| 3 months | +1.0% |
| 1 year | +22.7% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | CGIC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.4% | |
| 2025 | +37.5% | |
| 2024 | −2.8% |
CGIC in the news
CGIC Dividends
- 1.63%
- $0.61
- $0.35 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Apr 1, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.06 |
CGIC Risk
- 11.2%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.45
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −13.1%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.55
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGIC Cost
- The middle half of International Active Equity funds
- Median 0.58%
20 of the 55 International Active Equity funds charge less.